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Date Sent: 2009-06-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 24, 2009 PM edition |
Fed Decides to Do Nothing -- Gov. Sanford cheats on his wife in Argentina
U.N. Human Rights Chief Criticizes Handling of Detainees -- The Erosion of the Dollar and the Rise of the East -- Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine May Be in the Works -- Ron Paul: The World's Most Popular U.S. Congressman -- Torture eats away at the soul of this nation -- Robert Scheer: Foreclosure Fiasco -- Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In "Shambles" .. No Signs of Recovery Yet -- Debt Slavery: Exporting Danish-style Recourse Mortgages to the US -- Charles Goyette, Author, The Dollar Meltdown -- A Beginner's Guide to Food Storage - by Barbara Peterson -- Denninger: But The Recession Is Over! -- New Home Sales: Record Low for May -- The Gloves Come Off On Health Care Reform -- Prayer Police Strike Again…Rest of the Story – Rebuttal - by Greg Dixon
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Decides to Do Nothing
06-24-2009
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NY Times
Facing an economy that is perking up slightly but still deep in recession, the Federal Reserve left its rescue policies unchanged on Wednesday and said that it would keep interest rates low for “an extended period.”
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gov. Sanford cheats on his wife in Argentina
06-24-2009
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NY Times
[Oh, pullez!] South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he's been having an affair with a woman from Argentina and will resign as head of the Republican Governors' Association. He apologized to his wife, staff and
others at a news conference after returning from a trip to
Argentina that followed a dayslong absence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
U.N. Human Rights Chief Criticizes Handling of Detainees
06-24-2009
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Washington Post
The U.N.'s top human rights advocate appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates
or try them in a court of law, and said officials who authorized
the use of torture must be held accountable for their crimes.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Public health plan could save money faster: policy group
06-24-2009
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Reuters
[Because Medicare has been so cheap] A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like
government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private
plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy group said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
The first Europeans were cannibals with a taste for kids
06-24-2009
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Daily Telegraph
The claim has come after bones of the ancestors of Neanderthals and Homo
Sapiens who first settled in Europe around 800,000 years ago were unearthed
in the Atapuerca caves in northern Spain.
A study of the prehistoric remains has revealed that human flesh formed part
of the diet of early man and children and adolescents in particular were
regularly killed and eaten.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
06-24-2009
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NY Times
At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound
of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same
place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known
examples of figurative art in the world.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Erosion of the Dollar and the Rise of the East
06-24-2009
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com
David Rockefeller, and Sam Wahl, and Bill Gates, looked at the social and economic structure of the People's Republic of China and saw the new American paradigm. Not in the evolution of China to democracy and freedom, but in the subjugation of the United States...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine May Be in the Works
06-24-2009
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infowars.com/
School superintendents around the country are to spend the summer preparing for a massive swine flu vaccine this fall and added that schools are being put on notice that they might be turned into factory assembly line shot clinics.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chart of the Day: Market Capitalization as a Percentage of GDP
06-24-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog
It looks like we are in a place that would look very familiar to people who followed equities in 1929.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ron Paul: The World's Most Popular U.S. Congressman (VIDEO)
06-24-2009
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Huffington Post
Months after his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential
nomination ended, Rep. Ron Paul has become a hot ticket on the
international stage. Unlikely as it may seem, Paul, a Texas Republican,
is the most popular member of Congress outside the United States, if
foreign television appearances are any indication.
Paul expected his international influence to diminish after the
quixotic presidential campaign. In fact, it's gone the other way.
"It's actually building," he told the Huffington Post. "It really
truly baffles me. I see myself as somebody who's been saying the same
thing for about 30 years and not too many people paying any attention."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Torture
Torture Eats Away At The Soul Of This Nation
06-24-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Many people of faith appear willing to tolerate unspeakable cruelty. Christians who follow one who himself was tortured by the powers of his time evidently are now ready to justify our own government's use of torture.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Opinion: Torture eats away at the soul of this nation
06-24-2009
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By Diana Gibson and Ray McGovern
Anniversaries
can be important. This Friday marks the 22nd anniversary of the U.N.
Convention against Torture, ratified and signed under President Reagan. Last Friday marked the 150th day of the presidency of Barack Obama, who is trying to put a definitive end to the torture approved by the Bush-Cheney administration.
That Obama has not been able to do so is our collective
shame. Worse still, the president has apparently concluded that he
lacks the support to deter future abominations of this sort by
launching a proper investigation and holding to account those
responsible.
Something evil has seeped into the soul of
our nation. Those many years when we looked the other way, choosing to
ignore the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, eroded our morality.
Americans
who claim to believe in human dignity and the law do not seem
scandalized by this inhumane and illegal activity. Many people of faith
appear willing to tolerat
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Robert Scheer: Foreclosure Fiasco
06-24-2009
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Truthdig.com
Why was I so naive as to have expected this Democratic president to not do the bidding of the banks when the last president from that party joined the Republicans in giving the moguls everything they wanted?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In "Shambles" .. No Signs of Recovery Yet
06-24-2009
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CNBC.com
While the economy is a "shambles" and likely to stay that way for some time, he remains optimistic there will eventually be a recovery over a period of years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Spokane-area residents see another side of Iran ("Government Bad. People Good")
06-24-2009
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spokesman.com
“They didn’t know what to make of us,” said Pam Deutschman.
But despite their surprise or shock to meet Americans visiting their country, many of the Iranians welcomed them with open arms.
“They knew how hard it was and how unusual it was for Americans to
be there,” said Jon Snyder. “They were deeply impressed and it
reinforced their pride in their country.”
Throughout their travels to Tehran, Isfehan, Shiraz and other cities, people stopped to talk.
“What do you think of our country?” they would ask. On a few
occasions, some people told them in English: “Government, bad.
People, good.”
( "Hmm, apparently Ernie's been to Iran!" Dianne said! So I thought I'd share that little tidbit with you guys!
Blessings,
Frank G )
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Debt Slavery: Exporting Danish-style Recourse Mortgages to the US
06-24-2009
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HousingDoom.com
To sum up, it would seem that a lot of banks are looking at intensified control and exploitation of their middle-class customers in the US and beyond as a way to recover some of their recent losses. I find this very disturbing.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Charles Goyette, Author, The Dollar Meltdown
06-24-2009
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YouTube
Charles Goyette, talk show host and author of The Dollar Meltdown
(release Oct. 09), on national TV, warns about the "economic calamity
the Republicans and Democrats are creating," and is among the first to
promote Ron Paul's candidacy on Fox, CNN, etc.
(Publisher: Charles is coming baaaaack.. stay tuned to FreedomsPhoenix)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Japanese Trade Implosion Continues, Exports Fall 41%
06-24-2009
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NakedCapitalism.com
Japan’s exports fell at a faster pace in May, extending the nation’s deepest trade slump since World War II.
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Food
Farm Wars
A Beginner's Guide to Food Storage
06-24-2009
Barbara Peterson
If you run into hard times, or the store shelves run dry, you will need to have a backup supply of tasty, nutritious food. This article explains how to set up a food storage system.
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News Link • Agriculture
Earliest Grain Storage
06-24-2009
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arclein
That's as much as a thousand years before people in the Middle East domesticated grain, the research team led by anthropologist Ian Kuijt of the University of Notre Dame said.
Remains of wild barley were found in the structure, indicating that the grain was collected and saved even though formal cultivation had not yet developed.
The granary was between two other structures used for grain processing and residences, discovered in excavations at Dhra', near the Dead Sea. The granary was round with walls of stone and mud. The researchers said it had a raised floor for air circulation and protection from rodents.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Magplane Technology for Freight and People
06-24-2009
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arclein
The maximum size vehicle weighs 45 tonnes gross, and carries 175 passengers, three and two abreast. Minimum headway at 500 km/h is 20 seconds, which permits a maximum single vehicle operation capacity of 25,000 seats/hour in each direction, as compared to about 10,000 for light rail and about 3,000 for a highway lane. With headways of 60 seconds in keeping with current state-of-the-art automatic controllers, three coupled intercity vehicles would be used to achieve the 25,000 seats/hour intercity capacity.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
H.S. Kathleen Sebelius funds new flu vaccine based on insect cells
06-24-2009
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RawStory.com
The US Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday announced that a 35-million-dollar contract has been awarded to a US company that is developing a flu vaccine using insect cell technology.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Denninger: But The Recession Is Over!
06-24-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
Anyone who thinks that a $100 billion+ hit to consumer spending capacity, plus the follow-on emotional impact of "feeling poorer" when the plastic doesn't work any more won't show up in the economy has rocks in their head.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Drifting
06-24-2009
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arclein
So while he is riding along, he is also trying to ignore the big domestic government finance disaster rushing down the rail toward him. California is screaming for help and others can not be far behind. The cities must be facing huge contractions in their budgets. In the end it will become visible and congress will be forced to react again in a panic. All this is foreseeable and plans can be made.
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
New Home Sales: Record Low for May
06-24-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 342 thousand. This is essentially the same as the revised rate of 344 thousand in April.
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
THE POPULATION ORGY: CALIFORNIA’S ULTIMATE CALAMITOUS PATH
06-24-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
Have you ever gotten a feeling that you were on a date with
the wrong person? Kind of a queasy gut
feeling? Have you found yourself
traveling down the wrong road and the further you traveled the more uneasy your
feelings? Have you lied to yourself or
someone only to find out you created a bigger problem?
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News Link • World News
Report: SC gov was in Argentina, not hiking trail-Note: Sanford is a member of the Bilderbergs
06-24-2009
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AP
South Carolina
Gov. Mark Sanford was in Argentina during a dayslong unexplained
absence, not hiking the Appalachian Trail as his staff told the public
when state leaders raised questions about his whereabouts,
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
We risked his life to kill commies
06-24-2009
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Mark Yannone
Even the world's most famous hound dog had to be ready to die for the cause.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
The Gloves Come Off On Health Care Reform
6/23/09
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Forbes
Obama hits back at insurance companies for opposing public option.
It took a few months, but tensions between the Obama administration and private health insurers seem to be coming to a head.
In a White House press conference Tuesday, President Barack Obama described a government-run health care option as "an important tool to discipline insurance companies" and brushed aside criticism that such a plan would ruin the industry.
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Anonymous Watchman
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